Big increase in military flights

There’s an E2 Hawkeye tracking in the north sea. It doesn’t show where it’s taken off from. I’ve never seen one over here before. Makes me wonder if there’s an aircraft carrier in the north sea.

Anyone know where they are flying from?

I answered my own question, seems there is a aircraft carrier in the north sea

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/american-supercarrier-and-escorts-arrive-off-british-coast/

There was a C-2 Greyhound that came up from Spain to Prestwick over the weekend. Presumably to bring something needed by the carrier air wing.

B52 just out of Fairford – there are a few stationed there as part of the current Bomber Task Force-Europe operation.

There’s 4 B52s at Fairford at the moment.  Just noticed one is tracking now, if you’re in the area keep an eye out.

B52 just out of Fairford

Currently looking as though it lost something in the North Sea off Aberdeen.

Sleepy Joe probably dosed off and pressed the wrong button when he woke-up with a jolt.

Just popped my head out the door to see what was making so much din nothing to see at all but it’s out there somewhere.

Looked on ads aand it’s busy

@pk13 are you in Yorkshire?

There is some seriously vigorous fast jet action going on over York(ish) currently, they usuakly have transponders on but not today.

Its pretty intensive compared to normal too (im well used to them!)

No I’m right in the middle whatever went over was loud and the only thing remotely close was at the time was a  private Gulf stream.

Sleepy Joe probably dosed off and pressed the wrong button when he woke-up with a jolt.

Just in case you were asleep and hadn’t noticed, but there’s all kinds of shit going on in Syria, which has a major Russian naval base which gives Putin his only proper presence in the Mediterranean, along with the Lebanon, Ukraine, etc, and B-52’s are regularly based at Fairford.

No I’m right in the middle whatever went over was loud and the only thing remotely close was at the time was a  private Gulf stream.

There are certain American jets that are particularly loud, and have a distinctive deep rumbling sound. When I was working in Westbury, which is fairly close to Salisbury Plain ranges, they’d be stooging around for considerable periods of time, and wouldn’t always have transponders on. When they did they’d show as lots of ‘racetracks’, at around 19,000ft, and they were always F-15 Strike Eagles out of Lakenheath. I sometimes hear them flying overhead here at home, but it was never possible to see them.

wouldn’t always have transponders on

They will always have ID transponders on. Multiple MLAT receivers will pick these up and give a location. Same with small private planes. However, if they are very low there may not be enough MLAT receivers to give a fix.  ADSB Exchange and Flight Aware are the sites to check.

Flight Radar does not take personal MLAT data – relying on airport MLAT data – and so is useless for low flying planes (Big jets, SAR choppers etc give out a ADS-B signal together with location data).

ADSB Exchange:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

My personal feeder in Stirling: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?feed=1FFKCa6EmbI9

Fun hobby which uses a Raspberry Pi and cost me less than £100 to set up.

Just in case you were asleep and hadn’t noticed, but there’s all kinds of shit going on in Syria, which has a major Russian naval base which gives Putin his only proper presence in the Mediterranean, along with the Lebanon, Ukraine, etc, and B-52’s are regularly based at Fairford.

I was not aware of that, ta. Just thought the big noisy aeroplanes flew around for the fun of it, armed to the teeth ‘cos it looks cool.

It was a jokey reply to a jokey post about a B52 looking lost over the North Sea; I appreciate if humour (in loose terms) is lost on the internet, but probably best to have a think before going for the full condescend. But, in all seriousness, Biden is (and has been) a liability; his latest decisions go some way to back that up. I’d still prefer him to the orange thing though, which is damning with faint praise indeed.